The design of high-speed railway bridges comprises a set of demands, from safety and serviceability aspects, to new types of equipment and construction solutions. In order to perform an accurate and realistic evaluation of the corresponding dynamic behavior, adequate analysis tools that take into account the complexity of the train-bridge system are required. These computational tools must be b...

To estimate the fatigue life of long-span steel bridge more accurately, this paper proposes a method for estimating the fatigue life of long-span bridges by considering vehicle-bridge coupled vibration. Firstly, the universal equation of vehicle-bridge vibration is derived based on triaxial standard multi-scale model of fatigue vehicle and bridge, and relevant program for vehicle-bridge coupled...

Of the many causes of vertebrobasilar insufficiency (VBI), extrinsic compression of the vertebral artery (VA) is relatively uncommon. A syndrome of VBI caused by extrinsic compression of the VA secondary to head rotation has been termed positional vertebrobasilar ischemia. The authors present a case of transient VBI caused by herniation of a cervical disc. Transcranial Doppler ultrasonography w...

The development of structural health monitoring systems for bridge structures necessitates improvements in the understanding of vehicle-bridge interactions. Direct measurement of the complex coupling that naturally exists between vehicles and bridges is a challenging undertaking due to the limitations of existing sensor technologies. However, the emergence of wireless sensors in the field of st...

The aim of this article is to point to correlation between vertebrobasilar insufficiency (VBI) and obstructive sleep apnea (OSA) that has not been perceived sufficiently till now. Namely, in the voluminous literature about sleep-disordered breathing, VBI has been cited only as one of the possible causes of central and mixed sleep apnea. However, according to our clinical observation, VBI could ...

This paper presents a finite element method (FEM) framework for the dynamic analysis of coupled vehicle—bridge systems under nearfield /far-field ground motions. A train car with two bogies is assumed to be represented sufficiently by a discrete, rigid multi-body system with thirty-eight degrees of freedoms (DOFs). The normal Hertzian contact theory and the tangential Kalker linear theory modif...

The response of a structure subjected to moving load can be obtained using coupled or uncoupled methods. method is often preferred since modal superposition applicable, which implies computational efficiency and ease implementation. However, the ignores changes in dynamic features combined structural system due time-varying location load. This paper analyses extent accuracy affected by these ch...

Abstract A method for analysing the vehicle–bridge interaction system with enhanced objectivity is proposed in paper, which considers time-variant and random characteristics allows finding power spectral densities (PSDs) of responses directly from PSD track irregularity. The pseudo-excitation adopted framework, where vehicle modelled as a rigid body bridge using finite element method. vertical ...